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Running slack12, 2.6.23.1 on a toshiba laptop with an ipw3945 card. Dual boot with winXP.
Previously had wireless working with Vector 5.8. Recently installed slack12 and have not been able to get wireless working.
Recently wireless stopped working under windows with similar symptoms (could see wireless network and network settings all seemed OK) and this was fixed by uninstalling and reinstalling driver. I'd put this down to normal windows behaviour.

I've built the driver module under this kernel (from source, not the slackware extras package) and it gets loaded in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
The ipw3945d daemon gets started in rc.local
So far I think it's all OK because e.g.
# iwlist scanning
produces a normal output including my own wireless network.

The wireless device was always eth1 (192.168.1.3). The wired NIC is eth0 which is working fine (192.168.1.2).
The changes I've made are:
/etc/modprobe.d/wireless:alias eth1 ipw3945
Settings for eth1 in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf
Filled in section in /etc/rc.d/rcwireless.conf

With all of this can't ping my wireless router except with a wired connection (Destination host unreachable) or connect anywhere else

Didn't want to make this too much bulkier. If someone is able to help please just let me know which other outputs I should include. And I'm sure my problem has been dealt with before but I jst can't find a thread which quite matches my problem.

Thanks for reply. I never bothered about it before, both were always up without a problem. I have got wireless working in my Vector linux installation and for some reason now it did only work after
# ifconfig eth0 down
but this has not fixed the problem in slack12.
I thought it could be because eth0 was listed at the end of the default route line, so I did
# route del default
# route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth1
but still no dice
At least I know it's not a hardware problem.
Thanks for the suggestion - keep 'em coming!